In this provocative volume, Gabor S. Boritt brings together five of today's premier Civil War historians--James McPherson, Archer Jones, Gary Gallagher, Reed Mitchell, and Joseph Glatthaar-- to reveal how battlefield decisions shaped the very forces--social, economic, and political--that many scholars claim determined the outcome of the war. Persuasviely argued and engagingly written, this work reminds us that the hard-won triumph of the North was far from inevitable.
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In this provocative volume, Gabor S. Boritt brings together five of today's premier Civil War historians--James McPherson, Archer Jones, Gary Gallagher, Reed Mitchell, and Joseph Glatthaar-- to reveal how battlefield decisions shaped the very forces--social, economic, and political--that many scholars claim determined the outcome of the war. Persuasviely argued and engagingly written, this work reminds us that the hard-won triumph of the North was far from inevitable.
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